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“List(e)n revealed how by ‘seeing’ our ‘enemies’ eye-to-eye, our judgment can dissolve, and we can heal our divides and mend our hearts. Listen Courageously, in turn, has shown that our perceptions don’t identify us, and that as humans we can strive for meaningful connections, regardless of what may ‘separate us’. Recognizing that the ‘us vs them’ mentality hasn’t served us is the first step to long-lasting change.”<\/p>\n
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[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″ text_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]\u201cIt takes practice, patience, learned skills and tools to have meaningful civil conversations. Safe spaces where missteps are allowed and grace is offered need to be intentionally created in every arena of our society from schools and universities to for profit companies and nonprofit organizations. It is through open and yes, often uncomfortable conversations where we start moving toward solutions to some of the most challenging issues of our time.\u201d[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″ width=”95%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/listencourageously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/doakbloss-1.png” title_text=”doakbloss 1″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.8.2″ max_width=”40%” custom_margin=”-26px|||||” custom_padding=”10%||10%||true|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”||-6px|||” custom_padding=”||2px|||”]<\/p>\n
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Doak Bloss<\/strong> is a trainer and facilitator who has worked extensively with students, health and human service professionals, governmental agencies, and community organizers across the U.S. Most recently he has coordinated Michigan Power to Thrive, a new network of local health departments and community organizing groups working together for health equity. Doak has facilitated over 200 community dialogues on a range of topics. He has been a frequent presenter at conferences on the use of dialogue as a vehicle for social change.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_align=”left” header_3_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”||-1px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ text_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px”]<\/p>\n “My work has focused primarily on the effective facilitation of dialogue, especially on issues of privilege, oppression, and equity. This discipline is different from the art of listening, although the two overlap considerably and are mutually complementary. My interest in listening is centered on the question, “What are the conditions that must exist in order for authentic listening across differences to occur?”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″ width=”95%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/listencourageously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/carltonevans.png” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.4.3″ max_width=”40%” custom_padding=”10%||10%||true|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”||-6px|||” custom_padding=”||2px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ text_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”-4px||16px|||” custom_padding=”0px|||||”]<\/p>\n Carlton Evans<\/strong> is a facilitator, with over 17 years of experience, specializing in social justice issues. The tool he uses is dialogue, highlighting commonality of purpose, multiple solutions with an emphasis on listening. Some of his clients have been Community Mental Health, United Way, Ingham County Health Department, Michigan Health Department, Michigan Public Health Institute, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_align=”left” header_3_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”||-1px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ text_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px”]<\/p>\n “Any oppression works on four different levels: 1) the personal via our thoughts, feelings and beliefs; 2) the interpersonal, as in ‘how those beliefs play out in our dealings with others’; 3) the institutional, with written and unwritten policies and procedures; and 4) the cultural, with ‘what we deem as beautiful, right, and normal’. Dialogue coupled with courageous listening works at the personal and interpersonal levels — or in other words, at the ‘people level’. It can change the person, and therefore one’s interpersonal actions and relationships. Everything is about relationships, or critical connections. What we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system.”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″ width=”95%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/listencourageously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jennifergrau.png” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.4.3″ max_width=”40%” custom_padding=”10%||10%||true|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”||-6px|||” custom_padding=”||2px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ text_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”-4px||16px|||” custom_padding=”0px|||||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_align=”left” header_3_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”||-1px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ text_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px”]<\/p>\n \u201cListening is a powerful skill set that enhances relationships and productivity, while enriching life. If listening were a new technology, with buttons to push and screens to touch, Venture Capitalists would be falling over one another to invest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″ width=”95%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/listencourageously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Valerie.png” title_text=”Valerie” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.8.2″ max_width=”40%” custom_padding=”10%||10%||true|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”||-6px|||” custom_padding=”||2px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″ text_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”-4px||16px|||” custom_padding=”0px|||||”]Valerie Smith<\/strong> has served as an educator at every grade level of K-12 public education, and the university level. At the K-12 level, Valerie has also served as a district-level instructor and assessment administrator. As a district level leader, Valerie designed and conducted professional development initiatives which have led to educators listening and communicating with peers as well as families from different backgrounds and ethnicities. For the past 16 years Valerie has been acting as a facilitator, leadership coach, and community activist, focusing on community-wide \u201cdifficult conversations\u201d, specifically focusing on personal and group identities and cultural differences.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_align=”left” header_3_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”||-1px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.2″ text_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px”]”Creating safe spaces to listen, speak and be heard is essential for people to become the best versions of themselves. This begins with courageous listening, to communicate with each other, and honor our diverse lived experiences, identities and environments. Courageous listening is where positive change begins.”[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.3″ background_image=”https:\/\/listencourageously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/LindaYTewannah-5.jpg” width=”100%” max_width=”100%” module_alignment=”center” height=”300px” max_height__hover_enabled=”on|desktop”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”40px” header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_font_size=”40px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”100px|||||” custom_padding=”|10%||10%|false|true”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″ width=”95%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/listencourageously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/corinejansen.png” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.4.3″ max_width=”40%” custom_padding=”10%||10%||true|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”left” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”||-6px|||” custom_padding=”||2px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ text_text_color=”#000000″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” custom_margin=”-4px||16px|||” custom_padding=”0px|||||”]<\/p>\n Corine Jansen<\/strong> is an acclaimed speaker, advisor and trainer in the field of listening. Her work is at the intersection of listening and healthcare, where she’s had tremendous impact serving a variety of populations ranging from cancer patients to terminally-ill individuals. As a result, she specializes in opening conversations with people with a broad, nondirective invitation to speak. During the last eleven years, she has trained in listening to both content and form, to be aware of genre, diction, metaphor, time and space, tone, and mood – in order to follow complicated stories as they are being told. Corine is also an active member of the International Listening Association, with a CLP certification from ILA.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_text_align=”left” header_3_font_size=”13px” custom_margin=”||-1px|||”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.3″ text_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#241488″ header_2_font_size=”30px”]<\/p>\n “While it is important to listen attentively and actively, it is also necessary to understand that even when we pay full attention to someone else’s story, people listen to different types of information differently. 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Carlton Evans<\/h2>\n
Carlton’s thoughts:<\/h3>\n
Jennifer (Jennie) Grau<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n
Jennifer’s thoughts:<\/h3>\n
Valerie Smith<\/h2>\n
Valerie’s thoughts:<\/h3>\n
Advisors<\/h2>\n
Corine Jansen<\/h2>\n
Corine’s thoughts:<\/h3>\n